St Ninian’s PS – Primary 2 Home Learning GridWeek 8 Monday 25 th May 2020

If you need to contact your teacher please use the followingMrs Currie – jennifer.dick@westlothian.org.uk Miss Lydon – Emily.lydon@westlothian.org.uk

LiteracySpellingThis session we have learned and discussed many of the different ways you can write a vowel sound. We call these the alternative vowel sounds. Here is an image of the vowel hand which shows all the different ways that you can make each of the vowel sounds.

You will notice a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e and u-e. These are showing you how “magic e” works.

Watch this youtube video link to a song about Magic E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZhl6YcrxZQ

Numeracy and MathsNumeracyThis week we will continue to focus on the skill of estimating.

Remember that estimating means having a go at guessing an answer and using clues to try to guess as close to actual answer as possible. See the challenges at the bottom of this grid.

I like to look at the pictures and think how many are near one side and that gives me a clue for many there might be altogether.

Number TalksLook at the three number talks below, for each work out how many altogether? How did you count it? Can you find three different ways to count it?

The ‘e’ on the end stretched the middle vowel sound and makes it say its capital name.

Here are some words which use the magic e spelling pattern.

tub tub + e tubetap tap + e tapekit kit + e kite

Look at the worksheet below, in your jotter copy the pictures and then write the word next to it remembering the magic e rule.

Extension

Will finds 48 seashells at the beach. Joy finds 36 seashells. How many seashells do they have in total?

Maths

We are looking at area this week.

Area is the amount of surface space a 2D shape takes up.

We are going to use squares as our unit of measurement today.

This green shape has an area of 5 squares.

ReadingYou have all been allocated a new book on your Active Learn Primary site.

Happy reading!

WritingYour writing this week is all about Lego. You have 48 hours (2 days) and an unlimited supply of Lego. Your challenge is to write about what you would

Work out what the area of each of these grey shapes is by counting the squares that it the shape takes up.

create. Your writing should answer the questions below:

What will you make? How big will it be? What will it look like? What purpose will it serve? Who will you invite to help you in this

project? What could possibly go wrong with it?

What will you do to prevent this? Where will your Lego creation be located?

The video below also explains your writing challenge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLzDOGMsmDvev9eeJeNUAJx7N8SOGLRwMJ&time_continue=50&v=6A6KVVMI3dY&feature=emb_title

I would love to see your writing this week so please email it if you would like to share your

hard work.

Listening and Talking

Your listening this week is an audio story called The Parrot Who Lost His Pirate.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0830dm4

Now have a think about the questions below and have a short discussion about them.

If you took part in the treasure hunt, what animal would you choose to help you win it? Why?

Give this story a new title. Why did you choose this title?

St Ninian’s PS – Primary 2 Home Learning GridWeek 7 Tuesday 19 th May 2020

Health And Well Being/REActive

1. Animal Safari

How many ways can you move like an animal?

- Jump like a frog

Rights Respecting SchoolSomething Fun!

Your focus this week is typing skills. We are going to start on Level 1 of this game. It’s called Dance Mat Typing and we will progress through the different levels to get comfortable using a QWERTY keyboard. This game does require a keyboard to play so there is an

- Walk as tall as a giraffe- Slither like a snake

- Crawl like a lion- Etc.

2. Sports Charades

To play this game you must act out a sporting activity and someone else

guesses what sport you are acting out.

You can make this competitive by having teams and keeping score. You

could use tally marks to do this.

3. Kidz Bop (dance-along)https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=QfzRP6V5rE4

Please see the attachment on the blog for this week’s Article Of The Week from

Mrs Conway.

alternative below if you are on a device without a keyboard.

https://toybox.tools.bbc.co.uk/activities/id/activity-dance-mat-typing/exitGameUrl/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fguides

%2Fz3c6tfr

Here is an alternative for if you are using a mobile or iPad. Select any game from the website Free Typing Games and select #2

Homerow + en for the level.

https://www.freetypinggame.net/mobile/index.asp

Art From Mrs Kerr

Please watch this video about Global Goals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBxN9E5f7pc

Global Goal number 6 is all about looking after our water and keeping it nice and clean.

Learning IntentionCreate a picture of a nice clean sea.

SC: Create your picture using pens, pencils,

chalk, crayons, paints. You can choose. Try to include things that you would find in

the sea (sealife, plants, rocks) Try to include a message about keeping our

water clean.

RE From Mrs Howley

Numeracy-EstimatingPlease do not worry if you cannot print this off. You can count them on your screen to check your

answers.

Numeracy-EstimatingPlease do not worry if you cannot print this off. You can count them on your screen to check your

answers.